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Dirty John Los Angeles Times | Wondery
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All episodes are available for free, with remastered ad-free episodes available for Wondery+ subscribers.Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who seems to check all the boxes: attentive, available, just back from a year in Iraq with Doctors Without Borders. But her family doesn’t like John, and they get entangled in an increasingly complex web of love, deception, forgiveness, denial, and ultimately, survival. Reported and hosted by Christopher Goffard from the L.A. Times.
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The Real Thing
Debra Newell, an interior designer in Southern California, meets John Meehan on an over-50 dating site. His profile looks exciting: Anesthesiologist, divorced, Christian. She falls in love fast. But her children dislike him and warn her that his stories don’t add up. A psychologist advises Debra to set firmer boundaries with her kids, saying she has a right to be happy.
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Newlyweds
After an intruder appears in John and Debra’s livingroom, John insists that they install security cameras. Debra begins to wonder whether he is spying on her. Her nephew, Shad, looks into John’s background and confronts him with what he finds. Debra’s vision of an idyllic marriage is shattered when she discovers a stash of paperwork in John’s home office.
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Filthy
Debra grapples with the question, “Who did I marry?” The story of John’s mysterious past unfolds through the eyes of his sisters, his law-school housemate, his ex-wife, and an Ohio cop who hunted him. The origins of John’s nickname are revealed. Bed-ridden in an Orange County hospital, he pleads with Debra to take him back.
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Forgiveness
Debra is in hiding, living out of hotels and disguising herself with a wig. Debra fears she will meet the fate of her sister Cindi, who was killed by her husband as she tried to escape a bad marriage. John has explanations for the accusations against him. He weeps and apologizes. Three decades earlier, that had helped Cindi’s killer walk out of prison.
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Escape
Episode 5: John finds a lawyer and plots to unleash a blizzard of lawsuits against his enemies, with the aim of proving to Debra that he is the victim, in case after case. The lawyer believes her life is in danger. As her painful isolation from her family deepens, she secretly plans her escape from the marriage.
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Terra
Jacquelyn and Terra Newell suspect that John has been watching them. When Jacquelyn tells her mother that he is in town, her mother believes she is mistaken. Jacquelyn warns Terra to carry her pocket knife. But Terra is preoccupied by a country-music concert, and she is watching for the wrong car.
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Good one
I think it is an interesting one, some reviewers say it is too long, I disagree in part, I think it is ok. The story is an interesting one and you cannot help thinking how this could go on for so long, but on the other hand, from the victims side, you kind of loose track of things when you are in the middle of everything...
It’s just barely ok
The host repeatedly expressing surprise in regards to Debbie returning to her abuser, in spite of being an intelligent, business-savvy woman, shows a real lack of understanding from the creators on the nature of abusive relationships. Not offering any kind of advice to listeners who find themselves in a similar situation is negligent at best, and proves that the creators have failed to grasp the fundamentals of the story they are telling: up until the last episode, this is not a unique story, rather, it’s a sadly common story about an abusive man who manipulates women. It literally happens constantly, and while the family affected in this particular story has some interesting quirks, their story is told in a very shallow way. This review is not a reflection of the family, who seem interesting enough; it is a critique of the creators, who would have done well to explore the themes of emotional and physical abuse further before telling a story about it. Overall, this series is just not deep or interesting enough to justify all of these episodes, and it is not worth the investment of your time.
Women need to know
Such an horrible story but so important! Women need to know, need to learn and need to protect them selves.